Montana puts 62 on Big Sky winter academic teams

4/30/2025 12:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball, Men's Track and Field, Women's Basketball, Women's Track and Field

By: Montana Sports Information

The University of Montana's winter sports teams had 62 student-athletes named Academic All-Big Sky Conference the league office announced on Wednesday.

Coach Doug Fraley's indoor track and field program had 47 athletes honored, coach Nate Harris's women's basketball team had 10, coach Travis DeCuire's men's basketball team had five.

Montana's total ranked fourth in the Big Sky.

To be eligible, student-athletes must have had at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA through the fall semester and then competed in at least half of their team competitions this past winter or, in the case of indoor track and field, at the Big Sky Championship.

Harris's team had the third-highest total in the league in that sport and matched the program record for Academic All-Big Sky selections in a non-COVID season.

Fraley's men's and women's indoor teams had the fourth-highest combined total in the league.

Men's Basketball: Jensen Bradtke (R-Fr., Media Arts); Kai Johnson (Sr., Communication Studies); Malik Moore (Jr., Psychology); Austin Patterson (Sr., Anthropology); Te'Jon Sawyer (Sr., Communication Studies)

Women's Basketball: Dani Bartsch (Sr., Accounting); MJ Bruno (Sr., Social Work); Macy Donarski (R-Fr., Communicative Sciences & Disorders); Mack Konig (Jr., Psychology); Adria Lincoln (So., Business Management & Entrepreneurship); Tyler McCliment-Call (Gr., Entertainment Management); Alex Pirog (Jr., Criminology); Draya Wacker (R-Fr., Psychology); Avery Waddington (Fr., Communications); Izabella Zingaro (R-Jr., Master's of Business Administration)

Men's Indoor Track and Field: Morgan Amano (Fr., Business Administration); Braden Ankeny (Fr., Business Administration); Evan Barnes (Fr., Business Administration); Tyler Bates (Fr., Biology); Jay Beagle (Sr., Master's of Business Administration); Easton Brotherson (R-Fr., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Lane Cole (Jr., Wildlife Biology); Garrett Dahlke (So., Political Science); Carson Hegele (Jr., Wildlife Biology); Cooper Hewett (Sr., Entrepreneurship Certificate); Michael Jump (So., Environmental Science & Sustainability); Patrick Kremer (Jr., Management Information Systems & Business Management); Corbin Luce (Jr., Marketing); Adam Maxwell (Jr., Marketing & Business Management); Wade Rykal (Jr., Business Management); Caiden Sekuterski (Fr., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Carson Steckelberg (So., Wildlife Biology); Kevin Swindler (So., Integrative Physiology); Cutter Thatcher (Sr., Master's of Business Administration); Brody Thornsberry (Fr., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Zachary Travis (So., Management Information Systems); Carson Weeden (Sr., Master's of Business Administration)

Women's Indoor Track and Field: Isabelle Berry (Fr., Biology); Molly Chambers (Sr., Wildlife Biology); Sophia Clark (Fr., Communication Studies); Jayel Dovichak (So., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Kensey Gault (Fr., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Libby Hartz (Fr., Business Administration); Claire Hutchison (So., Communication Studies); Maddie Kremer (Sr., Management & Entrepreneurship); Chesnee Lawrence (So., Marketing); Rileigh McGree (Jr., Marketing); Iris McKean (Jr., Wildlife Biology); Lily Meskers (Jr., Journalism); Whitney Morrison (Sr., Master's of Business Administration); Hannah Moses (So., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Scout Nadeau (So., Marketing); Tara Ohlwiler (So., Marketing); Shay Pederson (Jr., Mathematics Secondary Education); Savana Ramirez (Sr., Psychology); Samantha Serex (Gr., Master's of Business Administration); Ainsley Shipman (Jr., Political Science & Business Management); Morgan Thomas (So., Forestry); Emma Weeden (Sr., Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training); Kathryn Whitehurst (Sr., Finance); Erin Wilde (Jr., Business Management); Brooke Zetooney (Fr., Business Administration)